Covers

[Shaka]

Usually I enjoy a good cover attempt especially when the band does something new with the song.

However, I agree with Creekster on this one. That was an abomination.

[creekster]

I feel ashamed to admit this for some reason, but I kind of liked the Ataris doing Boys of Summer:

Man you should be ashamed. Don't take this personally, but that is in the top 5 of my list of horrible covers. Do those guys even understand the point of the song? They take a reflective and introspective song of lost love and lost youth and strip it of all nuance. I swear these guys so completely missed the point, the meaning and essence of the song, all without adding any musicality or artistic vision of their own, that I can't imagine a more dreadful cover.

This song has one of my all time favorite evocative lyrics:

"Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac; a little voice inside my head said don't look back, you can never go back; I thought I knew what love was, what did I know? Those days are gone forever, I should just let 'em go but, I can see you . . . ."

There should be a law against singing that verse unless you are at least 35 years old, because until then you just can't really appreciate what he is talking about.

Again, nothing personal, its only rock and roll, but i like it. I am obviously a very grumpy old man.

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[CardiacCoug]

I feel ashamed to admit this for some reason, but I kind of liked the Ataris doing Boys of Summer:

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[BoylenOver]

My favorites:
Nirvana-The Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie)
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Disturbed-Land of Confusion (Genesis)
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Alien Ant Farm-Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson)
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Cascada-Listen to Your Heart (Roxette)
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[creekster]

I'm witrh you on soft cell, Il Pad, but not dear prudence. I know your love for all things 80s, but I think souixies' version is an abomination.

As far as covers go, this one is better, IMO [YOUTUBE]IMk8GIOQHvY[/YOUTUBE]

Sonny and Cher's song is really sort of a vaudeville act so its hard to take it or the cover too seriously.

SPeaking of Rod Stewart, has anyone ever gone from being so good to being so bad in their career? OK, lots of people have but man I liked some of his early stuff with the small faces: [YOUTUBE]m4PXMCCTMwM[/YOUTUBE]

or this:

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PLus, you get the gah-roovy 70s clothes in these clips and, in the second one, one of the faces (bass player) about gets it in the face from Rod's mike stand.


As good as rod was there, I think he should leave Tom to his own stuff. Who does Waits better than waits? I can't think of anyone.

Sergio Mendes? That is a good cover and it picked up some decent residuals for Sergio. SIde Trivia: Brasil 66 once borrowed my uncle's drum set for a concert in Utah and they let my uncle sit in for a couple of songs to thank him.

FInally vonda shpherd. No, sorry, just not gonna cut it. Here is the original:

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It is better with full lryics. Moreover, VOnda Shepherd just has too much happy in her voice (and ti is not a good vocie at that, at least not in that song). You can practically hear her pop open that big toothy grin of hers between phrases. That will not do for this song. GIlbert has those droopy sad eyes and his voice, while not husky, at least evokes lonliness. I will grant theat gilbert looks silly in the video, but the voice says 'alone again' much more natrually. I do concede that part fo the problem fo rme may be that I know vonda did this song for Ally NcBeal and, well, I just can't take much of that. The other probolem is that I like covers to add something. If you are goign to cvover a song, you shoudl augment the origianl vision, or change the vision a bit. THe sergio M cover does that. VOnda does not do it. Instead, she just slows it down a bit (zzzzz) and then cuts some lyrics.

Oh yeah, I have opinions.

[TripletDaddy]

Good thread idea.

One of my favorites is Mad World by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules from the film Donnie Darko. Original by Tears for Fears.

i just posted about this cover a week or two ago, although now I don't remember why.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Good thread idea.

One of my favorites is Mad World by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules from the film Donnie Darko. Original by Tears for Fears.

[Katy Lied]

Do you have any favorite covers?

Mas Que Nada - Originally by Sergio Mendes, Covered by The Black Eyed Peas.

Alone Again, Naturally - Originally by Gilbert OSullivan, Covered by Vonda Shepard

A song that should never be covered is Brick, by Ben Folds Five. What an intensely personal song. Speaking of misheard lyrics, when this song first came out, I thought he was singing "Sheesh, I'm breaking up, drowning slowly..." when he was singing "She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly."

[il Padrino Ute]

A few come to mind:

Dear Prudence - originally by the Beatles, covered by Siouxie and the Banshees:
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Tainted Love - originally by Gloria Jones, covered by Soft Cell:
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I Got You Babe - originally done by Sonny and Cher, covered by UB40:
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UB40 has a slew of great covers on their two Labour of Love albums.

[RobinFinderson]

That Tom Waits video is remarkable. Look at the way he dances and moves! He is truly an artist whose whole body is his medium, his voice his instrument. What an original. This was a great reminder of why I love that guy so much.

[RC Vikings]

Do you have any favorite covers? Mine should be called uncovered. Rod Stewart remade this song and did a nice job but I'm not sure it does justice to Tom Waits original.

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